New Delhi
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‘Don’t walk to your tune, walk carefully’
Indian city dweller Samprati Pani draws on her walking practices as an anthropologist interested in the making of public places in the city. Through an ethnography of walking practices performed in the bazaars of Delhi, the talk will illustrate how walking in the bazaar, even for a solitary walker, is a social activity because its rhythm and pace is continuously modulated in relation to others and the materiality of the place.
Where my feet fall – going for a walk in 20 stories – with Duncan Minshull
WHERE CAN A WALK TAKE YOU? Duncan Minshull has brought together 20 contemporary writers to write about a walk they remember or a walk they have undertaken during the pandemic - join this Walking Writers Salon to chat with Duncan Minshull.
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The future in Delhi’s present
Different parts of the city hold different meanings for those who come to live in it. The footpath to a bus stop in East Delhi, the view of Purana Qila from a mudrika, the first ice cream at India Gate, a market, a park, a housing colony, a route or a stop accumulate to make the city for us, and in strange and invisible ways also make us. Yet, we continue to exist in ourselves and in cities in this constant play of the visible and ever-changing present, jousting constantly with our memories and our present navigating through a place. … Continue reading The future in Delhi’s present →
My Teacher, Sunil Kumar
This piece is the first in a series of reflections on and conversations with interpreters who have embedded themselves in the city they translate to others. Their imageries and imaginations provide ways of seeing the past and present of the city as also forms of caring about the city to future generations of interpreters.… Continue reading My Teacher, Sunil Kumar →
Stroud and a Hidden Colonial Landscape Number
Chalford and the East India Company Updated: Jul 7 Chalford has such a labyrinth of weavers’ walks and footpaths – And on a mid-winter’s day, with plumes of smoke rising from Chalford Bottom Mistletoe in the trees, light folded in envelopes of cl...
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